TheCuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) launched this Friday a new version of its Transfermóvil application through whichInternet packages can be purchased without limitations, upon payment in dollars.
Payments can be made from the MiTransfer exchange, the main novelty of the new Transfermóvil update, and which is nothing more than a virtual money account associated with a mobile number, which can be recharged and operated without the need for other data than the number. user's phone number.
MiTransfer allows you to have two rechargeable accounts - one in dollars and the other in Cuban pesos - within the Transfermóvil application (independent of bank cards), so that users can make payments for services and purchases of products from the company that monopolizes the mobile and landline communications in Cuba.
Customers who want to use this new option must register in advance from the Transfermóvil application. Once registered, they will receive an SMS with a four-digit PIN (key) that they must modify with the first use.
“The USD Account creates its balance with recharges from abroad www.bolsatransfermovil.com and, once recharged, the client will be able to make purchases of products and payments for telecommunications services such as the promotion of international recharges, combined plans and Nauta Plus ", stated this Friday the official newspaperGranma.
However, the official organ of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) did not reflect the price in dollars of the unlimited internet packages. Through a tweet, the cell phone company Cubacel indicated thatThe Nauta PLUS package (valid for 15 days) costs $15, whileThe 30-day valid one can be purchased after paying $25..
The greed for foreign currency of the Cuban regime, of which the PCC is a fundamental pillar, seems to cause embarrassment to its ideologues and communicators when it comes to "informing" the people of these "opportunities" that only highlight the injustice suffered by the workers. Cubans who earn in pesos and have no other way to obtain dollars, in addition to highlighting the gap of inequality that extends among Cubans, fueled by the ineptitude, greed and indolence of the military, communists and rulers.
The new Nauta PLUS modality allows unlimited Internet browsing while the contracted package is active, which can be valid for 15 or 30 days. In the case of the CUP Account, Granma explained, the balance is created from the recharges of CUP bank cards from Banco Metropolitano, Bandec and BPA, whether private or from another person.
With it you can pay for services and buy products in Cuban pesos such as telephone bills, mobile balance recharges, Nauta cards and make online payments (through in-person payment at commercial units). Both accounts will be able to make transfers to other clients who have bags with accounts of the same type of currency.
Likewise, transfers will not be limited to a certain amount on the day, but will be limited to the maximum limit allowed by each account (CUP Account: 30,000 CUP / USD Account: 1,000 USD). As detailedGranma, “each transfer will have a cost in the same currency as the account: 0.04 USD and 1 CUP, respectively”.
Nauta Plus can be used in the navigation rooms of ETECSA and third parties, such as the Joven Computing Club, Correos de Cuba, WIFI_Etecsa areas and from the Nauta Hogar service.
As these are non-rechargeable packages, the Nauta PLUS user will have to pay for a new one when the validity of the contracted account expires.
At the end of July,ETECSA limited, without prior notice, recharge operations for mobile phones What users on the island can do through Transfermóvil.
"Transfermóvil is limiting recharging operations to only 2 per day, it seems unacceptable to me that services continue to be restricted. In the end, everything that limits us affects us. This measure is totally contrary to the desire for computerization of society," it is stated. complained a user like many others on social networks.
Shortly after, the state monopoly responded that "adjustments were applied to this platform to ensure its better functioning."CyberCuba He tried to contact ETECSA to find out, among other issues, why the clients were not notified of the decision and whether it was a temporary or definitive measure, but he never received a response.
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